I am a recent convert to mac from windows. I have a HP MSS that did all my backups for the 5 machines the family had and used time machine for the macs as they came into the house. Recently it got flaky on backups so i'm making the move since i have no windows machines any more.

 

I have built a rpc-4220 chassis with unraid 5.0-beta12 with a pro license

currently i have 5 hd's installed until i move the data off my MSS and then i can add 4 additional drives. Here is where i get lost.

I want to setup shares like music, video, time machine for ea mac, ect. I have ONLY enabled AFP and not smb or nfs. When i setup a share i see in the finder disk1, disk2,(etc-all disks) then video, music but i cant move files to the named ones so i must have something wrong.

 

What i want is to only see the music, etc and not disk1 etc if possible. maybe i just need someone to hold my hand through this setup.

I am not in front of my unraid box so bear with me.

 

Open in safari tower/main.

Where you see the drive list (disk 1-2-3 ect), click the drive and it should bring you to a drive setting page.

Go ahead and set your individual drive share properties.

 

Personally, I set all disks to hidden and read/write for admins and read for everyone else

 

I hope that helps

for afp (mac) shares you should only use disk share OR user shares. not both at the same time.

i would recommend to share your user shares over afp and disable afp shares on disk shares completely. if you need the disk shares too, use smb for those.

for afp (mac) shares you should only use disk share OR user shares. not both at the same time.

i would recommend to share your user shares over afp and disable afp shares on disk shares completely. if you need the disk shares too, use smb for those.

 

Thanks Benni-chan that did exactly what i was looking to do.

 

Using V5 Beta12

 

Now on to my other q's

best way to setup the shares and span the disks?

Here is my disks

Parity - 2tb

disk1 - 2tb

disk2 - 1.5tb

disk3 - 1tb

disk4 - 1tb

disk5 - 1tb

disk6 - 1tb

disk7 - 1tb

disk8 - 500gb (future cache disk)

disk9 - 400gb (this poor little guy will get removed if not needed or used just something i had lying around)

Cache - 36gb (old 10,000rpm raptor)

 

Currently all shares are set to:

Min free space - 0

split level - blank

included - blank

excluded - blank

cache - yes

 

 

Here is my share's and max size needed for each. This is the future max total needed so the total needed and what disk storage i have should be about equal. I have 10 more drive bays if needed.

J Time Machine - 1.5tb

S Time Machine - 750gb

F Time Machine - 500gb

A Time Machine - 500gb

J crap - 100gb

S Crap - 100gb

Crashplan - 200gb

Music - 100gb

Videos - 4tb

Software - 400gb

Photos - 500gb

 

What would be the best settings for

Allocation method.....

Min Free space.......

Split level.......(which i really get lost trying to figure out )

included........

excluded.......

cache disk.....(i assume yes on most since i really cant see pushing more than the 36 gig a day. Even a few dvd rips a day at most).....

 

 

Should i change any of the disk settings or leave them default?

 

share settings page: use cache disk is set to yes but what should min free space be set to? currently 200000

 

Mucho Thanks for any guidance. 

                           

 

any help here is grateful !

Here are my share settings for time machine.